Des Moines woman killed in northern Iowa fire

ALGONA, Ia. — Authorities have released the names of a woman who died at the scene of a house fire in northern Iowa and two other women injured in the fire.

Firefighters were sent to the Algona residence early Tuesday found a bedroom ablaze.

The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that authorities identified the dead woman as Jessica Lierley Southard, 29, of Des Moines. Kossuth County Emergency Manager David Penton says she was the daughter of one of the women injured, Patrice Lierley, 63, of Des Moines, and the niece of the other woman injured, Karen Lierley, 69, of Algona.

Penton says the mother and daughter were visiting Karen Lierley at her home when the fire broke out.